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shorthair:
Oil isn't in short supply. It's just harder to get at than before. There's so much oil in the marshlands of....Alaska, or Ireland, or somewhere, I forget where...that we needn't worry for a century or two. And though the techniques needed aren't in practice, they actually wouldn't be that expensive, economically. But ecologically, they'd be horrendous. Basically like strip-mining.
It's not a matter of resources. It's a matter of paradigm. There are numerous, bonafide examples of things that are more efficient and not very, sometimes even less, expensive than our current way of things, without sacrificing lifestyle (though 'more, more' is not in balance). These things have been stifled. Then imagine that even one of the 'unreal' things, say Tesla coils and that stuff, is actually possible. Totally changes things.
Buddabing:
--- Quote from: shorthair on May 24, 2007, 04:06:12 pm ---Oil isn't in short supply. It's just harder to get at than before. There's so much oil in the marshlands of....Alaska, or Ireland, or somewhere, I forget where...that we needn't worry for a century or two. And though the techniques needed aren't in practice, they actually wouldn't be that expensive, economically. But ecologically, they'd be horrendous. Basically like strip-mining.
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Canada.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: patrickl on May 24, 2007, 05:43:53 am ---
I still wonder why no one seems to think that finite natural resources running out is a problem. Why is it always about the climate change?
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It is about the climate change because the "solutions" directly involve these finite natural resources.
I thought you said you were a thinker?
boykster:
--- Quote from: Buddabing on May 24, 2007, 07:26:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: shorthair on May 24, 2007, 04:06:12 pm ---Oil isn't in short supply. It's just harder to get at than before. There's so much oil in the marshlands of....Alaska, or Ireland, or somewhere, I forget where...that we needn't worry for a century or two. And though the techniques needed aren't in practice, they actually wouldn't be that expensive, economically. But ecologically, they'd be horrendous. Basically like strip-mining.
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Canada.
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So does that mean in a decade or two we can expect to see canadians wearing turbans with Maple Leaf's on them?
patrickl:
--- Quote from: shorthair on May 24, 2007, 04:06:12 pm ---Oil isn't in short supply. It's just harder to get at than before.
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Ehm isn't that amounting to the same thing? Oil is running out and the few remains are harder to get out of the ground. It will run out one day (if we keep using the stuff)
I wonder if the oil price going up by a factor of 2 or 4 over the next 20 years wont have a bigger impact than maybe a degree of global warming.
I have seen several reports that at least Saudia Arabia is over its peak. For instance Peak Oil for Saudi Arabia?
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